[QUOTE=Drolefille;2030349]
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Originally Posted by KSig RC
Because budgets aren't the same thing as the reality.
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So I was showing the reality matches the budgets, almost to the dollar.
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I really don't see television deals as comparable to research, internships or out-of-the-classroom learning. The latter are for the primary purpose of learning, the former are for the money. See the difference?
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I really don't, to be honest. Should the school stop selling sweatshirts and keeping the profit? That's primarily for money, too.
Money is an enabler for so many things - it's why we pay students to hustle you for donations, even though you're only a few years out of school. Hell, some might even say that football is the easiest money the school makes, since it only requires 125 kids and associated staff for a massive amount of money.
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Hey, it's awesome, until you consider graduation rates aren't necessarily so hot and athletics are prioritized over scholarship even at non-D1 schools. How many people are we actually helping, and how many students are actually graduating with degrees and job skills rather than lost hopes at NFL/NBA/MLB stardom. I don't know that there's an answer.
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That's fair - I guess it's 'glass half full' on some level, even if only 50% graduate, this still happens. It's not a primary benefit, but it is a benefit, and I agree that it comes with other attendant issues.
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I don't think I ignored the positives of college athletics, I've mentioned several times that they're important, and that they should exist, just not, in my opinion, in their current form. It is the prioritization of those 125 students OVER the 30,000 for the sake of the all mighty hand-egg that brings in the dough that bothers me.
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I see what you're saying, but students are prioritized differently all the time - I got to register first and got preferential housing, for instance, due to the program I entered through.
The skill set of those 125 is obviously very valuable, and the ROI on that prioritization/scholarship money is absurd. Much higher than on a lawyer or doctor on average, and much higher than a moe like me.